How Does Technology Affect Our Lives?

Nowadays, technology affects our lives in different ways. It is everywhere and has changed the way we communicate, study, work, shop, play, and behave. We use technology constantly, because it is in many tools we use everyday: from the fridge to the oven, from TV to computers.

The tool that has revolutionized our lives over the last decade is the smartphone. I cannot imagine my life without it: I use it to keep in touch with my family and friends, to take pictures, to do researches on the Web when I do not want to turn the computer on. It has changed the way we communicate and this is both a pro and a cons. Smartphones, and, more generally, Internet, have helped us to eliminate time and distance as obstacles to effective communication. We can talk with people from all over the world when we want, but the cons are evident: we risk to lose sight of the people who phisically are around us. Thus, we need to find a balance between the cyber world and the real world.

There are clearly much more ways technology has changed our lives, and it would not be true saying that without it we would have lived better. It has been a positive impact, made our lives easier, but we have to be careful to not abuse it and to remember that there is a real world outiside the world of technology.